Kansas coach Bill Self has been selected to receive the John R. Wooden Award’s “Legends of Coaching” honor in 2013, according to a release by the university.

The first recipient was Dean Smith of North Carolina in 1999.

The award is designed to honor coaches based on character, success, graduate rates and coaching philosophy.

Self will be honored at Los Angeles Athletic Club the weekend of April 11-13, along with the 2013 Wooden Award winners and all-American team.

“This is a great honor and humbling, but non-deserving; plus it’s a legends which makes me sound even older than I am,” said Self, who turns 50 in December. “I had a chance to meet Coach Wooden and get to know him fairly well back in the year 2000 because of an award we received. Cindy and I were able to spend a weekend with him and his family. That was a cool experience. To be thought of in this regard with some of the coaches that have won this in the past is pretty humbling.”

Self has won eight straight Big 12 regular season titles and five conference tournaments in his nine seasons at Kansas.

He’s won 83.5 percent of his games at Kansas (269-53) and has a career record of 476-158 (75.1 percent).

He led Kansas to a national title in 2008 and finished as runner-up last season.